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- 19 Mar 2019
- News
A Quick Study
medical students retain information through the use of online study tools and with the help of a vast library of Khan Academy video content. The company has more than 440,000 registered users and 930,000 YouTube subscribers. The tech... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
Photo via Profile Magazine Photo via Profile Magazine It seems that Keith Krach (MBA 1981) has never met a tech segment he didn’t like—or disrupt. Over a 35-year career, Krach has built four game-changing companies, in the fields of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
@Soldiers Field
DULY NOTED BIZ DEV In October, the 24th annual HBS Tech Conference drew some 1,000 attendees for an agenda that included a fireside chat with Rachna Bhasin (MBA 2001) and Kathy Wang (MBA 2017) of Magic Leap, a Florida-based augmented... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
Weinstein says the HBSLAA has produced a series of events this year to promote and increase Latino representation, engagement, and leadership in the tech industry. The Latinx Technologists Initiative (LTI), spearheaded by Raysana Hurtado... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes Israel a leading center of entrepreneurialism and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)
Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the underrepresented, and the disabled,” she says. “They understand that their work can help create independence, which enables dignity and self-respect.” Vista Center recently piloted a conference, VistaTEC, to gauge industry interest in driving this kind of work.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
call with his team. “I think the decision drove a tremendous amount of confidence,” he says. He saw many of his peers in the tech industry scrambling; Stack Overflow, in contrast, was inherently prepared for the transition. Lumry Family... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
technology is perfectly suited to do true 3D visualization for everything from education to health care,” says ten Cate. Inspiration: One common question ten Cate gets is whether Tilt Five’s tech will allow people to play the holographic... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
friends, another venture capitalist. He wanted Motley to meet a woman who had founded the nonprofit Black Tech Nation to advocate for Black entrepreneurs. From that conversation grew Black Tech Nation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
determined. It started out of her dorm room. We joined a tech accelerator and that really propelled us forward. Our formal launch was in May of this year, but we had been working on it for five months before that. And my sister still... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
David Wetherell, chairman and CEO of CMGI, and Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of AOL Europe. In all, sixty CEOs and founders, along with representatives from over three hundred companies, participated. For more information on the Cyberposium, which is sponsored by... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
another tech giant: Sandberg contends that she’s almost an accidental prophet of openness in the workplace. A decade ago, as an executive at Google Inc., she always worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Then her first child was born, and she found... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Emmys. But in the last few years the world has changed. The push to streaming. The entry of tech companies. Disastrous mega-mergers. It’s all had a crippling effect on TV writers and our ability to make a living. An 8-episode order on... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
ultimately lies not on the R&D or the tech itself, but rather in the scale of the business. “Unlike most of the chemical or energy industry, where you have to build mammoth plants in order to be economically viable, we want to become... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education course" for attendees. "Books" and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by Shane Greenstein, the Martin... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie